let it snow! (but only on in a papercrafting context!)

that's our challenge at shopping our stash this week, "let it snow", no doubt you'll have sussed that we want to see projects with snowmen, snowflakes, snowy landscapes... or, well, any other way you can think of to include snow. i went with snowflakes, in lots of different colors. such as red, white and teal:

various shades of blue:

even some green ones:

this is my "kid card" for the year, hence the mass-production. the idea came from one of the amazing make-n-takes miss elisabeth featured at the paper anthology anniversary party a few weeks ago, and i knew as soon as i saw it that it was fancy enough to impress some of my favorite xmas card recipients (aka the nieces and nephews!) but easy enough to make eight of. which i did:

this card is a GREAT way to use up scraps, which is what i did; but i'll list as many patterned papers as i know: echo park, pebbles, my mind's eye, doodlebug, creative imaginations, american crafts, hambly, ki memories, dcwv, we r memory keepers, making memories, love elsie... ok that's about it... most of these are out of print anyway, so even if i knew who made 'em you couldn't buy them; the main thing is, you can use pretty literally ANY combination you like together. these A2 cards need a 2" square, a 2.5", a 3" and a 3.5" ...but again you can scale up or down, add layers or subtract, this is super-flexible! glitter paper scraps are all american crafts POW (my new fave!) it's textural and glittery and SUPER-shiny, but diecuts perfectly, even with the thinnest dies; cardbases are plain white index stock from staples; elmers gluetape runner and 3m foam tape for adhesives. and that's IT... easy peasy! ♥ 

obviously you don't need to make more than one project. but if you need a bunch of cards, i highly recommend this fun origami-based design, which you can learn in about 15 seconds from one of the many instructional videos out there. meanwhile, there's lots more inspiration from my lovely teamies at SOS; treat yourself to an eyeful of that, won't you, darings?!